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Last Letters from Hav is a novel by Jan Morris.
Bruce Tindall, 12 October 1995
Hav, the Danzig-like international
city from the novel, was given a black-and-white checkered flag precisely because such a flag would not
duplicate the colors of any other country, and thus would not imply that Hav
was allied with or controlled by any other country.
Bruce Tindall, 12 October 1995
I have drawn the flag of Hav. It is a rather Bavarian design (it is possible).
Ben Felix, 19 February 2012
It is indeed possible, based on the account a
black-and-white checkered flag
. However, lacking any further data, I
think that this excercise in Reconstructive Vexillography is not
helpful. Not only is the available data too scarce to allow a useful
reconstruction, such reconstruction, if ever done, should follow
Occam's razor and be as simple as possible, assuming that anything
untoward would have been mentioned.
In this case it would be a chequered flag as used in sports.
In this particular case, I'd even argue that a Bavarian lozengy
instead of an orthogonal chequy is not only less likely in terms of
vexillolographical and textile parsimony, but also disprovable in view
of the scarce data available, as a lozengy pattern, even in different
colors, would be perceived as Bavarian and thus not meet
the condition of not duplicate … any other country
, unlike the
chequy flag.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 20 February 2012
image by Ben Felix, 21 February 2012 |
added 9 March 2014 |